Ron Nesson Quotes

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

I know certain techniques, such as a press release that looks like a newscast. So you use it because you want your man to win.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I get along fine with the press.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

Everyone in politics turns to the press, if only to manipulate it or deflect it.

Our job [White House press secretaries] is to serve the interest of the President while recognizing the interests of the press.

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.